California Reserve Peace Officers Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
942891302
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Woodland Hills, CA, USA
Phone
8184492233
Rating
58
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Law Enforcement

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$162,490
Expenses
$168,327
Assets
$154,440
Liabilities
$607

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • STEVEN FAZIO (CEO)
  • DOMINIC GAMBOA (President)

People named in this filing

  • STEVEN FAZIO (CEO)
  • DOMINIC GAMBOA (President)
  • MARK TOZER (CFO)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Raise the professional and educational statements of reserve peace officers, search and rescue individuals and volunteer in law enforcement through training events and publications.

What it reported doing in 2025

Arpoc conference: each year crpoa sponsors a training conference for reserve peace officers, volunteers in law enforcement and search and rescue members.this training conference, one of the largest law enforcement training events in the state of California, is titled the annual reserve peace officers conference (arpoc).arpoc is composed of professionally taught training classes, displays of law-enforcement-related activities, and vendor displays of law enforcement products.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 37
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 39
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 37.2%; rating input score 37
  • Program expense ratio: 35.9%; rating input score 36

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -3.6%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.92; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 37.2% of revenue deployed · 35.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $60K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 37/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 36/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is not authorized to operate as a charity in California.